Yeah that weirded me out when I heard it too, but I guess it's like, your mother's poop carries some important antibodies in it and some people didn't get those antibodies naturally for some reason and it becomes a problem when that person gets certain infections.

Tig Notaro talks about having to get a fecal transplant when she had c diff.

When one of the greatest military commanders in history was addressing his troops to inspire them before marching them over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy at the start of the Second Punic War, as he shouted that he would chew the flesh off his enemies bodies and gnaw on their bones for dessert, was the great military commander speaking from...

When one of the greatest military commanders in history was addressing his troops to inspire them before marching them over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy at the start of the Second Punic War, as he shouted that he would chew the flesh off his enemies bodies and gnaw on their bones for dessert, was the great military commander speaking from...

...his Hannibal Lectern?

Mike Ditka marched over the Pyrenees and the Alps?

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When one of the greatest military commanders in history was addressing his troops to inspire them before marching them over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy at the start of the Second Punic War, as he shouted that he would chew the flesh off his enemies bodies and gnaw on their bones for dessert, was the great military commander speaking from...

...his Hannibal Lectern?

YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

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Has anyone else ever responded to an emailed question about something that could have been Googled in 5 second, with "If only you had some kind of electronic device in front of you that you could use to search for this information?"!

Has anyone else ever responded to an emailed question about something that could have been Googled in 5 second, with "If only you had some kind of electronic device in front of you that you could use to search for this information?"!

All day long, buddy. All frikkin day long.

"Do you have this item?"

"Okay sure. I can help you with that. See, what I'm going to do is take the name of the item you want. Following me so far? Good. Then I take that name and I go to "Amazon.com". Still with me? Awesome! Then I push "search" in the upper right. Okay, you try it. See how the thing you want shows up? No, it's not magic. I am not a wizard, you inbred simpleton."

Has anyone else ever responded to an emailed question about something that could have been Googled in 5 second, with "If only you had some kind of electronic device in front of you that you could use to search for this information?"!

All day long, buddy. All frikkin day long.

"Do you have this item?"

"Okay sure. I can help you with that. See, what I'm going to do is take the name of the item you want. Following me so far? Good. Then I take that name and I go to "Amazon.com". Still with me? Awesome! Then I push "search" in the upper right. Okay, you try it. See how the thing you want shows up? No, it's not magic. I am not a wizard, you inbred simpleton."

Has anyone else ever responded to an emailed question about something that could have been Googled in 5 second, with "If only you had some kind of electronic device in front of you that you could use to search for this information?"!

All day long, buddy. All frikkin day long.

"Do you have this item?"

"Okay sure. I can help you with that. See, what I'm going to do is take the name of the item you want. Following me so far? Good. Then I take that name and I go to "Amazon.com". Still with me? Awesome! Then I push "search" in the upper right. Okay, you try it. See how the thing you want shows up? No, it's not magic. I am not a wizard, you inbred simpleton."

You really get emails like that? Wow.

Phone calls or chats. But mostly when I have to help fill in on the phones.

I'm new to the whole daily medication scene. I take a blood pressure pill, zoloft, and a daily vitamin. But once in a while I forget and, rather than overdose, I just skip. So to combat this, I started turning over the bottles when I took them. That only worked if I turned them right side up when I went to bed. Which I'd forget.

So I went to you-know-where and searched for "medication reminder". I bought this:

I've seen those giant ones in the stores, wondered what giant pills people used them for...I still have the one I used to use for my horse, and that was a normal sized one, it still has 2 days of his antihistamines in it. Been years and I still can't throw them out.